Mac Miller's Drug Runner Sentenced to Nearly 11 Years in Prison

Mac Miller's Drug Runner Sentenced to Nearly 11 Years in Prison

  • The drug dealer who supplied rapper Mac Miller with laced drugs that led to his death has been sentenced to almost 11 years in prison
  • According to reports, Ryan Reavis supplied Miller with counterfeit oxycodone drugs that led to an overdose that claimed his life
  • The sentence has been met with mixed reactions from social media users who are arguing that it was not entirely his fault that the drugs were counterfeit

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A drug dealer who played a part in supplying rapper Mac Miller with drugs that led to his death has been slapped with a hefty prison sentence.

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Ryan Reavis who supplied rapper Mac Miller with the pills that led to his untimely death has been sentenced to 131 months in prison. Image: Getty Images
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According to Sky News, Ryan Reavis is one of the three men who pleaded guilty to supplying the Good News hitmaker with drugs that were laced with fentanyl.

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The publication further elaborates that fentanyl is an opioid 50 times more potent than heroin. The report also states that 38-year-old Reavis, who pleaded guilty to distributing drugs, claimed not to know that the drugs were counterfeit.

TMZ reports that Reavis was recently slapped with a 10 year 11, months sentence by a court judge. The report further notes that the sentence is almost double what he was hoping for but shorter than the 12 and half years prosecutors were gunning for.

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Reacting to the sentence, peeps shared mixed sentiments. Others argued that it was not entirely Reaves's fault that the drugs were laced.

@AceeNasty said:

"Big Mac bought the drugs though."

@AriGotsTits noted:

"I’m annoyed ppl are saying he did it to himself! Do you think if he knew it laced with fenty, he would have done it?? No way. Forever rest in peace to this kind soul."

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@Call_Me_Dogan added:

"Free my nigga he didn't do anything wrong."

Nick Cannon expecting 8th child with 5th baby mama Bre Tiesi, SA has mixed reactions: “He needs birth control”

Briefly News previously reported that Nick Cannon is going to be a father for the eighth time. The Drumline star and Bre Tiesi announced back in January that they were expecting their first child together - a boy.

Cannon already shares seven other children with four different women, including ex-wife Mariah Carey and model Brittany Bell.

The star topped Twitter trends when his baby mama Bre Tiesi shared snaps from their recent maternity photoshoot. According to Hot New Hip Hop, the 30-year-old mom-to-be stripped down to nothing but a trench coat and thigh-high boots for the black-and-white shoot with Cannon.

Source: Briefly News

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Privie Kandi (Entertainment Editor) Privilege Kandi is an entertainment news editor (joined Briefly in 2022). A Journalism and Mass Communication graduate from the Christian College of Southern Africa (2016), she has been in the arts and entertainment industry for six years. Privie has worked for the Zimbabwe International Film and Festival Trust as a communications officer and a writer and TV producer for lifestyle and entertainment channel CME TV. She passed a set of trainings by Google News Initiative. You can reach her at privie.kandi@briefly.co.za.